understand she was a good friend of kirk budke's. >> reporter: nowhere is it being felt more than h ere at uta. head women's basketball coach was a long time friend of bubke. they go back g some 14 years. he had been helping her to build up the lady mavs here at uta. it's called her game face. the look of intensity for a coach at an afternoon practice. but for head coach of uta's lady mavs, the game face is masking grief.ie >> it's just gut wrenching. it was like somebody hit me this morning. >> reporter: morrow was awakened by a call from her athletic director with the news a plane crash killed her friend kirk budke and three others. their relationship spans 13 years. >> working camps with him. he was one of theas first people to congratulate me when i got this job. >> reporter: uta played osu in stillwater last year. their rematch for tomorrow has been cancele d. >> lot of big schools -- he did that for m and for uta. he was like sam, i'll help you out any way ian can. that's how he talked. >> r.eporter: he talked to lots of north texas coaches. he recruited a pressureman from the high school.gh his friendship is what will be missed most. >> it's just a sad, sad dayad for or women's basketballme and for oklahoma state, the whole proge ram. >> reporter: coach morrow tells me that t he canceled game up in u stillwater may not eveotr be made up this school year because she says right now they're in the nonconference schedule. then they'll play in holiday tournaments after thatnt conference play starts. it's going to be difficult for